2000.07.17 Meeting Notes

News

Microsoft announces ".net." Like Hotmail is to e-mail, .net is to
computers. Imagine running a remote word processor, and renting it. (BAD IDEA!!)

"Tux Typing," a kids game that teaches typing, has been released.

IBM is producing Crusoe-based Thinkpads by the end of the year.

It's rumored on Slashdot that Sun is going to GPL StarOffice.

A group developing a micro X-window replacement has created a tiny
HTML 3.2-compliant web browser for it.

New 2.4 kernel done, coming out "soon."

FBI has a software/hardware package called "Carnivore" that they want
all ISP's to put on their systems to keep track of everyone.

DVD decoding case coming out.

Campchaos.com has a great Napster/Metallica cartoon. (Warning, it
contains very foul language!)

Bill will be responsible for Napsterdance.com, a Hampsterdance take-off.

Bill's "Mad Bomber" game was reviewed in Maximum Linux magazine!

People may want to go to the next City Council meeting on Wednesday to
hear about winfirst.com.

Committee Reports

Demo - We had a party on July 4, where there were 10 machines
there (networked together to play Doom), plus two Atari Jaguage game consoles
(networked to each other, too).

We will be having a demo at the Co-op on the 22nd from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Anyone who wants to come should let Henry know about it. Hopefully a
photographer from the paper will be attending it at some point too.

DCN - Jen Rutherford is doing a story for the Davis Enterprise on
DCN and LUGOD
doing computer recycling and other computer-related events in the
community. Anyone who has been involved in committees and wants to talk
about it in the article should e-mail her. It is due on August 10 and
should be coming out soon after that.

Installfests - There will only be one installfest this summer, as
Pete's
overloaded with moving. The July one is canceled, the next one is TBA.

LERT - One call was made, they need to work on getting him help.

Other LUGs - MaxNexus, a Mac users group in Sacramento, will meet
Tuesday, 7/18 to demo MacOS X (which is based on BSD Unix!). BALUG also
meets July 18th (topic TBA). SVLUG meets August 2nd (topic will be
Eazel, a more user-friendly, GNOME-based GUI being developed by ex-Apple
designers). NBLUG meets August 8th (topic: IP service clustering).
SacLUG meets August 9th (topic TBA).

Other Business

Pete held a contest in which the winner would receive his/her choice of
free swag for guessing what stupid question a PacBell employee asked him.
The question turned out to be "What is an IP address?", guessed correctly
by Roland Minden.